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Steve Phillips is the host of Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips , a color-conscious podcast about politics. He is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is the author of the New York Times best seller Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority . He is a regular contributor to The Nation .
That’s actually a surprisingly difficult question to answer. We must have more accountability and transparency if the party is to live up to its name.
Democratic challengers in Georgia and Texas have a great fighting chance, and they need more help than promising contenders in other states.
There’s minimal oversight and accountability, inadequate use of data, and their leaders have little insight into the communities they’re targeting.
Congress ignored a bill to study the issue for 30 years. It’s time for African Americans to be paid what they are owed.
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What Sanders and Warren supporters can learn from the long tail of Jesse Jackson’s presidential runs.
It wouldn’t be hard to find a qualified candidate. Why won’t Biden and Sanders commit?
Racial resentment gives Trump his power. It’s time for Sanders and Warren to call it out.
This November, Republicans are in danger of losing seats across the land—especially in Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia.
From funding for the Census to Stacey Abrams’s persistence, progressives did score some victories this year.
Strategic organizing helped turn this red state blue—but is the national party willing to learn from its example?
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